Jude Law ruined an unseen aspect of his Star Wars: Skeleton Crew character

Not everything is as it seems with Jude Law’s character in “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” although the actor has reportedly been spilling his backstory ahead of a final season episode that will really reveal it.

In a new sitting with Entertainment WeeklyLaw discussed the revelation that Jod Na Nawood, his character on the Amblin-style adventure show “Skeleton Crew,” is not actually a Jedi and is known to some as Crimson Jack. When asked about Jod-slash-Jack’s relationship with the Force, Law admitted that viewers will find out more about that at a later date. He then proceeded to tell the outlet some things that Lucasfilm and Disney probably didn’t want him to reveal just yet.

“That doesn’t really come to light until near the end, when you really get a sense of his backstory and why he may be a Force user and is Force sensitive,” Law told Dalton Ross by EW. The first season of the show will have eight episodes in total and only three have aired at the time of publication. Law also explained that he worked with series creators Jon Watts and Christopher Ford to shape his character’s backstory, although he admitted that his relationship with the Force “was a detail that was always there.” Still, he and the showrunners “really went back and made sure we were all on the same page about where (Jod) was born and what happened.”

You’d think Law would have stopped dead after that provocation, as we’re conditioned to expect stars to do when they’re involved in major franchises where even actors as legendary as Kurt Russell joke about being killed for sharing spoilers. Fortunately, however, the atmosphere in “Skeleton Crew,” a retro series with child protagonists, seems a little more relaxed. Therefore, Law delved into some previously unreleased details about his character’s backstory. “I would say a very telling page from his past is that he’s not someone who had a childhood,” Law told EW. “He is someone who had his childhood taken away from him, and that is why he looks at children with a certain disdain.” If Jod is Crimson Jack, it’s worth noting that this isn’t the character’s first appearance in the “Star Wars” universe.

It’s a testament to Law’s performance that his character’s relationship with childhood is something audiences can already grasp based on their interactions in the first three episodes of “Skeleton Crew,” even without yet knowing Jod’s full story. “They’re just little adults. Why don’t they understand that they have to get by and survive? And why are they so inexperienced?” Law continued, justifying Jod’s annoyance at the boys’ appropriately childish behavior. Honestly, it seems like Jod would be one of those people who doesn’t want his student loans forgiven because he had to pay off his own. “He has no real concept of innocence,” the actor concluded. Hopefully, this ragtag group of kids lost in space will make their mysterious companion’s cynical heart grow three sizes when the series comes to a close.

New episodes of “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” are released Tuesdays on Disney+.